Thursday, March 3, 2011

Week of March 7-11

Important Dates:
No school Monday 3/7 Pulaski Day
ISAT test Wednesday 3/9
Egypt test Thursday3/10

Classroom Chatter
All of third grade will be taking the last math ISAT test on Wednesday.

Spelling
L. 17 this week deals with prefix and suffix. The pretest will be Tuesday. The test will be Friday. Homework this week will go home Tuesday and due on Friday.

Reading
While reading some short biographies in our basal, we will be focusing on sequencing events. Students will also be selecting their own biography this week to read at home. They will be locating 6 important events to make a biography scrapbook in class. More info about this will come home next week!

English
We will begin unit 6, Pronouns! We also will be finishing typing our autobiographies.

Science
We will take the ch. 12 Energy test on Tuesday, 3/15. A study guide went home on Thursday. It is in the science folder.

Social Studies
Our Ancient Egypt unit has come to an end. We will take the test on Thursday 3/10.

Math
Information about the geometry project came home last week. Please let me know if you have any questions! Have fun with it. It is due Friday, 3/25. Please turn in the green rubric with it. If your child finishes early, they can turn it in at any time! We are taking the final ISAT test on Wednesday. Thursday, we will play a review game. Friday is the chapter 11 test. We will be catching up with division mad minutes. Next week (3/14), we will start division 5's. ***I've added 3 links to some math games online. Gamequarium is a great place to play mulitiplication and division AND other math concepts! Have fun!